Word: bespeak
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...University preacher. The bishop stands very high in his own denomination and is prominent also as the head of a great movement for popular education. He comes to Harvard a comparative stranger but we feel sure that he will find no less a welcome from this fact. We bespeak for him that greeting which will please him best, the sight of many faces at morning prayers...
...Gladden had done this his audience would slowly have dwindled away. Of his lectures at the Divinity School we have heard the most complimentary remarks. We only hope that his service has been as pleasant and profitable to him as to us. For his successor, Dr. Parks, we bespeak the same cordial support from the students...
...orator, but he has qualities which fit him for personal influence over the students. When he speaks he always impresses his hearers with his own manhood. His manner is in the style of conversation and his words are always spoken at the congregation rather than over their heads. We bespeak a hearty welcome from the students to Dr. Gladden, believing that this welcome can best be shown by a large attendance at prayers this morning...
...Stacey Brown '92, fresh from his recent triumph at New Haven, entered vigorously into the spirit of debate. He said he did not rise to bespeak a hearing for any wild or fanciful utopian scheme, but for a gradual and practical adoption of a nationalistic form of government. He dwelt particularly on the injustice of the present form of government, and introduced a bitter comparison between the millionaire and the workingman of today...
...Harvard who are interested in the success of all departments of the University, but also to such outsiders as are interested in the engineering problems of the day. We sincerely hope that the experiment will meet such success as will make it a custom of the future, and we bespeak for it the hearty co-operation of every member of the University...